OF  THE  BOARD  OF  PUBLIC  EDUCATION. 

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Incidental  and  miscellaneous  expenses,  print- 

ing,  etc.,  for  all  Elementary  Schools,  in¬ 
cluding  Cooking  Classes,  for  the  /Com¬ 
mittee  on  Elementary  Schools  . .  9,500.00 

Amount  in  reserve  . .  8,500.00 

Total . . /. . $69,500.00 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Murrell  Dobbins,  Franklin  Smedley, 

Edwin  Wolf,  Franklin  S.  Edmonds. 


APPENDIX  No.  38. 

Philadelphia,  March  13,  1906. 

To  the  Board  of  Public  Education 

of  the  First  School  District  of  Pennsylvania. 

The  Committee  on  Superintendence  respectfully 
reports 

That  upon  the  recommendation  of  this  Committee 
a  leave  of  absence  was  granted  on  February  13,  1906, 
to  the  Superintendent  of  Schools.  Doctor  Brooks  is 
now  in  Bermuda  and  has  requested  a  further  leave  of 
absence.  For  the  reasons  stated  in  the  Committee’s 
former  report  (Appendix,  page  50),  it  is  recommended 
that  the  accompanying  resolution  be  adopted. 

Resolved ,  That  the  leave  of  absence  granted  the 
Superintendent  of  Public  Schools,  Doctor  Edward 
Brooks,  be  extended  to  April  15,  1906,  without  loss  of 
salary. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Wm.  H.  Shoemaker,  William  F.  Harrity, 

M.  Rosenbaum,  Franklin  Smedley, 

Avery  D.  Harrington. 


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APPENDIX  No.  39. 

Philadelphia,  March  13,  1906. 

To  the  Board  of  Public  Education 

of  the  Eirst  School  District  of  Pennsylvania. 

The  Committee  on  Superintendence  respectfully 
reports:— 

That  the  Pedagogical  Library  of  the  Board  of 
Public  Education  contains  7,962  volumes.  These  vol¬ 
umes  have  been  collected  during  the  past  twenty  years: 
by  means  of  appropriations  granted  the  Board  of  Pub¬ 
lic  Education  by  City  Councils  and  represent  the  stand¬ 
ard  works  in  each  subject  of  knowledge.  In  1887, 
when  the  library  was  yet  in  its  inception,  the  Superin¬ 
tendent  of  Schools,  Dr.  McAllister,  prepared  and  pub¬ 
lished  a  catalog  of  the  library,  and  in  1889  published 
a  supplement  to  it. 

Since  1889  the  library  has  more  than  quadrupled 
in  size  and  value,  and  library  science  has  universally 
adopted  improved  schemes  of  classification  and  plans 
of  catalog.  The  publication  of  a  new  catalog  is,  there¬ 
fore,  desirable,  as  the  catalog  of  1887,  with  its  supple¬ 
ment  is  inadequate  to  the  present  demands  made  upon 
the  library,  and  is  also  unrepresentative  of  its  litera- 
ture  at  the  present  time. 

A  new  catalog  of  the  Pedagogical  Library  ar¬ 
ranged  on  the  dictionary  plan  has  been  prepared  by 
the  Librarian,  Miss  Lillian  I.  Rhoads,  so  that  each 
book  is  indexed  under  the  author,  title  and  subject  or 
subjects,  and  the  entries  are  arranged  in  one  alphabet, 
as  are  the  words  in  a  dictionary.  The  decimal  classi¬ 
fication  was  chosen  because  its  use  was  more  general 
than  any  other  and  because  its  adoption  would  con- 


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venience  the  largest  number  of  teachers.  This  plan 
of  classification  and  cataloging  has  been  adopted  by 
the  American  Library  Association  and  is  universally 
used  by  the  principal  libraries  throughout  the  country, 
including  the  Free  Library-  of  Philadelphia  and  its 
branch  libraries.  Each  book  is  indexed  under  the  au¬ 
thor,  with  the  author’s  full  name,  exact  title,  number 
of  pages,  size  of  book,  name  of  publisher  and  date  of 
publication.  References  to  editor,  translator,  com¬ 
piler,  etc.,  are  made.  Each  volume  is  further  indexed 
under  its  most  specific  subject  or  subjects  with  refer¬ 
ences  and  cross  references  to  kindred  subjects  and 
analyzation  is  made  of  the  more  important  essays, 
bibliographies,  biographies,  addresses,  etc.,  thus  pre¬ 
senting  to  the  student  valuable  information  which 
would  otherwise  be  hidden. 

In  the  subject  of  Education  and  its  kindred  sub¬ 
subjects,  and  in  philosophy  and  psychology,  the  library 
is  especially  rich;  while  the  literature  of  every  class 
of  knowledge  is  well  represented,  there  are  few  sub¬ 
jects  in  which  the  library  is  deficient,  and  these  sub¬ 
jects  are  of  minor  importance. 

Your  Committee  is  of  the  opinion  that  the  publi¬ 
cation  of  this  catalog  would  present  to  the  teachers  of 
Philadelphia,  and  to  all  interested  in  education,  a  rep¬ 
resentative  bibliography  of  pedagogical  literature,  of 
use  to  every  teacher  from  the  kindergarten  to  the  high 
school  and  in  every  branch  of  administrative  educa¬ 
tional  work ;  to  supplement  the  work  of  the  class-room 
and  to  aid  the  teacher  in  special  study  by  securing  for 
him  desired  information  in  the  shortest  possible  time. 

An  estimate  of  the  cost  of  publishing  the  catalog 
furnished  by  the  Department  of  Superintendence  is 


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$1,500.  This  would  present  a  volume  of  300  pages,  ar¬ 
ranged  in  double  columns,  printed  in  brevier  type, 
bound  in  ctiff-'papor  cover,  with  an  edition  of  5,000 
copies..  As  there  are  more  than  4,000  teachers  in  Phil¬ 
adelphia,  the  first  edition  should  be  not  less  than  5,000 
copies. .  This  would  mean  that  the  Board'  of  Public 
Education  could  place  a  manual  of  pedagogical  litera¬ 
ture  in  the  hands  of  every  public  school  teacher  in  the 
city  at  a  cost  of  thirty  cents  per  teacher. 

The  compilation  of  this  catalog  has  required  years 
of  careful  labor.  Its  preparation  was  incited  by  a 
general  demand,  not  only  in  this  city,  but  also  from 
various  parts  of  the  country,  for  a  new  edition  of  Dr. 
McAllister’s  catalog  and  for  a  hand  book  of  represen¬ 
tative  pedagogical  literature.  Miss  Rhoades  has 
worked  patiently  and  conscientiously  in  the  prepara¬ 
tion  of  this  work,  and  the  Committee  believes  that  the 
catalog  is  a  valuable  manual  for  the  use  of  teachers 
and  students  of  pedagogy,  and  would  aid  materially  in 
any  movement  for  the  general  improvement  and 
higher  culture  of  teachers. 

The  Committee,  therefore,  recommends  the  adop¬ 
tion  of  the  accompanying  resolution:— 

Resolved,  That  the  Committee  on  Superintendence 
he  authorized  and  directed  to  have  printed,  for  dis¬ 
tribution  among  the  teachers  of  this  School  District, 
an  edition  of  five  thousand  copies  of  the  analytical 
catalog  of  the  Pedagogical  library  of  the  Board  of 
Public  Education. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Wm.  H.  Shoemaker,  William  F.  Harrity, 

M.  Rosenbaum,  Franklin  Smedley, 

Avery  D.  Harrington. 


